**Beautification: Planting Flowers ** - The Club places barrels for flowers along the business district in Fairmont before Memorial Day until the fall freeze. The club encourages the businesses to participate in this project by planting flowers in the barrel closest to their business. Some businesses have purchased their own containers and planted flowers to help in this project. Club members plant and care for some of these barrels. Members are also encouraged to plant flowers in their yards (town or country). This year Contact person for this project is Delores Roper.

**Bloodmobile** - The Red Cross Bloodmobile comes to Fairmont usually twice a year in February and July. Members make appointments for donors before the event and assist the day of the event by registering donors, seeing to the needs of donors and helping at the food table. Contact person for this project is Donna Lefler.< br>

**CIP Project **- We are open to any suggestions for a CIP project for the 2010-2011-club year. Contact person for this project is Delores Roper.

**Fairmont Public Library** - The Fairmont Public Library has been a project of the Fairmont Federated Woman’s Club since it helped in establishing it in 1922. The club donates to the

**Fairmont Public library**- We are encouraged to donate books to the library not only as a club but also as individuals. Books are needed not only for public use but also for the library’s fund raising book sale. Members can volunteer to read a story or help with crafts at the library’s story time for preschoolers or during the summer reading program and the library could use volunteers to help with their book sale and at the Library’s “Soda Shop” fundraising project. *Note: GFWC also encourages books for school libraries. Contact person for these projects is Wanda Marget.

**Fairview Manor** - The Club donates to the Manor Auxiliary’s fund raising project, “The Lighted Cross Fund” and we support the Eden Alternative Project, which enhances the lives of those living at the Manor. Members are encouraged to visit those living at the nursing home. Contact person for this project is Nancy Seward.

**Fillmore Central School – The club is saving UPC labels from Our Family products for Fillmore Central Middle School and used ink cartridges for Fillmore Central Success Program. Contact person is Nancy Galaway

**Fillmore County Museum** - Members are encouraged to help with “County Museum Day”. All fourth graders in Fillmore County are invited to attend this day which is held in early May. Volunteers are needed to help clean the museum before this event (students from FC Middle School also volunteer for this) and to lead tours and give demonstrations on the day of the event. Club members are also encourage to help with volunteer work at the Museum. The Club will donate their yearbook to the museum. Contact person for this project is Delores Roper.

**Fine Artss** - The Club sponsors contest at FC Middle School in art and writing. The art goes on to a district contest and the writing winners go on directly to the state. Winners in art at the district level go on to the State level. At the District Fine Art Contest, we also send a youth in music. There is also art, Photography and writing contest for members of the local club, in which we encourage members to take part. We also have a local club contest in the crafts section of the Fine Arts with local winners going on to district and then state. Contact people for this project are: Music, Donna Lefler; Local Craft Contest, Faye Bonin; Photography, adult and School Art Contest, Wanda Marget &Carol Bettger; Adult and School Poetry & Short Story Contest, Nancy Galaway.

**Historical Preservation**- Members are asked to help in preserving not only the club history but also the history of their families, the community and the county by working with the Fillmore County Historical Society, Fillmore County Museum, Fairmont Cemetery Association and the Fairmont Public Library. You may want to donate your family history, volunteer to do some research on local or county families or events or submit a history of a veteran. Contact person for this project is Nancy Galaway.

**Membership**- Our goal is to increase our membership. We all need to ask at least one person to join this wonderful volunteer group that is dedicated to community service. Our goal is four new members this year.

**Reading**- NFWC reading program with members reading three books this year, one of which non-fiction. Keep a list of the title and authors of the non-fiction books and the number of fiction books read. President Lefler has started the GFWC reading program called ESO, where you read books from their list. Contact person for this project is Inez Logan

**NFWC President's Special Projects**- We will join in on our Nebraska GFWC President’s project is for each member to plant a tree at Halsey Forest in honor or in memory of their mother. The NFWC President would also like each club to plant a red rose in honor of GFWC President Rose Ditto. Contact person for this project is Donna Lefler.

**Recycling**- Members are asked to save recyclable material (newspaper, plastic, cardboard, cans, etc.) for the Fairmont Recycling Project. Volunteers are also needed on recycling day. Members are also asked to recycle clothing, toys, small appliances, etc. and donate articles to any group working with the needy. Contact person for these projects is Charlene Bristol.

**Ronald McDonald House**- The collecting of can tabs is a on going project that has benefited many people’s lives by the support of the Ronald McDonald House in Omaha, Nebraska. Nebraska Women’s Clubs have donated 8 millions can tabs. Contact person for these projects is Charlene Bristol.

**Post Prom Party**- This project was chosen to support the youth and drug and alcohol free activities. The club will supply two gift baskets for this event. Each member will bring an item to the March meeting to put in a gift basket. Contact person for this event is Marian Uldrich.

**Senior Center**- This year we will be holding a shower for the Fairmont Senior Center at our November meeting. Members are asked to bring an item (canned food, dish soap, paper towels, etc) for the center. Contact person for this project is Nancy Galaway.

**Shelter for Battered Women**- Each year our club members have made a donation at the December meeting, which goes to a shelter for battered women. Contact person for this project is Beth Uden

**Sophomore Pilgrimage**- Each year the club sponsors two sophomores from Fillmore Central High School to go To Lincoln and learn about our government. Contact person for this project is Marian Uldrich.

**Web Site for Club**- The GFWC Fairmont Woman’s Club started a web site on the Internet July 29, 2005. This site will be updated as material changes. The site includes a history of our club, current news, meeting agendas, a calendar of events and our health focus for the month. The site address is www.oocities.org/gfwcfairmont. Contact person for this site is Nancy Galaway.

** Women’s Health **– In September to bring awareness to Breast Cancer the club will be recognizing women in the Fairmont Community who have or have had breast cancer. We will also be paying tribute to those who lost the battle with breast cancer. We will also be honor all club members who have or have had cancer. The program for September will be on Cancers that effect women. Contact for this project is Donna Lefler

**Youth Rehabilitation & Treatment Center in Geneva**- This is a project of the state president and we will assist in this project. We can collect yarn and items to be used for craft projects, and personal items for the girls, such as soap, lotion, toothpaste, etc for YRTC. You can bring these items to any meeting. Each District in the state was assigned a cottage to support; our cottage is Burrows.